Weekly Growth Notes - What have you been doing to grow your product?
Weekly growth notes is the chance to share what you've been up to recently with a focus on growing your product.
- what have you been doing recently to grow your product?
- what has worked?
- what hasn't worked?
- what have you learned?
By sharing openly we can not only support each other but we also have the opportunity to learn and be inspired.
I've made a list of the 50 users who have signed up this week, and am going to contact them to ask what they'd like to improve - I still have to work out what to ask them, but I'll think of something! I'll probably set up a newsletter on sendgrid and use that to email them.
I need to chase up the 4 users that said they want a trial/extra features to see if I can get them using the product in earnest and respond to their requests - I'm hoping growth will come from word of mouth eventually.
I wrote a couple of quick comparisons with other status page products, and plan on writing a case study of the stripe status page, which I think is one of the best in the industry.
I'm going to take @harrydry 's advice from his recent twitter post and try some twitter threads on the company account, based on the case studies or other long form blog posts.
Nice one Kenny. Good luck.
Is there a way you could also connect with these users? Follow them on Twitter? Connect with them on LinkedIn?
Good idea, I'll look into that
I've kicked off newsletter about productivity to promote incoming to-do-list app: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/GetShitDone
A daily newsletter might be hard to stick to?
I've been using Facebook groups to reach out and build relationships with potential buyers. It's a lot of legwork but even just having my name all over the place has proven useful, even if not everything gets the engagement I want. I'm learning over and over that it's all about the relationships + serving others before you can expect them to buy (at least in my niche).
This stuff can be so valuable if you can stick with it in the right places, most people give up when they don't see immediate/quick results.
I write on behalf of my Indie Hacker efforts -
This past week I tried getting into a flow with Buffer. It's worked ok for Twitter posts, I found myself setting up a queue of posts and it felt good being more efficient with my time.
I tried it for LInkedIn for a couple of days and it just didn't seem to work so well. Visually the posts were not the same, that was annoying. Not that the posts there get as much traction at the moment, but the ones I posted got no interaction over the couple of days I was posting. It also doesn't seem possible to tag people in from Buffer, which is what I was doing previously. So, I've gone back to posting manually from LinkedIn. It has also made me wonder if LinkedIn rates posts made via a tool differently, just a hunch!